Böcker i Edinburgh Edition of the Colle-serien

The definitive text of Allan Ramsay's poems, presenting his uncollected works chronologically for the first time, with comprehensive explanatory notes Allan Ramsay was central to all aspects of Scottish literary culture in the eighteenth century, working simultaneously in editing, playwriting, theatre management, song collecting and bookselling, as well as founding and directing Britain's first circulating library. It was, however, his own original work as a poet which had a transformative influence on the way in which Scottish literature would develop in the ensuing decades and, indeed, centuries. Emerging as a published author in the early 1710s, Ramsay built a remarkably prominent profile as a poet of the Scots language whose work appealed to a diverse range of readers, allowing him to produce prestigious subscribers' editions of his poems in 1721 and 1728 and to continue as a poet until his death in 1758. This definitive and ground-breaking 2 volume edition of Ramsay's poems reflects the fifty-year career of an influential cultural and literary innovator, which will open new avenues for research. Rhona Brown is Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Scottish Literature and the Periodical Press at the University of Glasgow. Her research specialism is in eighteenth-century Scots language poetry and the history of the periodical press in Scotland, as well as in eighteenth-century club culture and sociability. Brown is author of Robert Fergusson and the Scottish Periodical Press (2012), and co-editor of Before Blackwood's: Scottish Journalism in the Age of Enlightenment (2015).

The first scholarly edition of Tea-Table Miscellany, a seminal collection in defining eighteenth-century Scottish song. This edition of The Tea-Table Miscellany brings together the four volumes of the collection of songs published between 1723 and 1737. The Tea-Table Miscellany combines traditional Scottish song and works by Allan Ramsay and his contemporaries with material from D'Urfey, Playford and the English stage and broadside in a collection of 399 songs. For the first time, annotations, background and a study of the origins of all the songs and tunes are compiled, examining both Ramsay's categorisation of the authorship and origin of the song texts and tunes to which it was most likely he was referring. This scholarly edition includes: - A detailed introduction - Clearly presented song texts and notes on the songs that identify both their print and musical antecedents - Musical illustrations that show major variations in the contemporary tunes with which the songs are associated - Illustrations of the title pages, and the main design features and ornaments used in Ruddiman's original edition Murray Pittock MAE FRSE is Bradley Professor and Pro Vice-Principal at the University of Glasgow, and Scotland's leading cultural historian. His publications include Scotland: The Global History (2022) and Enlightenment in a Smart City (2019). Brianna E. Robertson-Kirkland is the Music Research Associate on the 'The Edited Collection of Allan Ramsay' project and a Lecturer in Historical Musicology at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Her publications include Venanzio Rauzzini and the Birth of a New Style in English Singing Scandalous Lessons (2022).